Volunteer Spotlight on John Cole
Our trees and woodlands are rich habitats, supporting diverse wildlife, plants and humans. To celebrate National Tree Week, communications officer Liz Gyekye sat down with…
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Laser scans show devastating impact of wet wipes on the Thames
River charity Thames21 has today released data showing a mound created by wet wipes, which has grown to the size of two tennis courts and…
Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram joins litter pick to endorse Plastic Free Mersey project
Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram has joined a group of volunteers in a litter clean-up operation around the River Alt today to support an…
Harrow and Barnet residents invited to shape flood resilience projects
Residents living in the London areas of Barnet and Harrow are being invited to help shape a six-year programme of projects to reduce the risk…
Thames River Watch to involve wider London communities in new partnership funding phase
Thames Water and Tideway, the company building London’s new ‘super sewer’, have joined forces to fund environmental charity Thames21 to encourage more communities to tackle…
Thames21 launches manifesto and urges river groups to unite ahead of COP26
River groups must work collaboratively across the globe and put pressure on governments, businesses and society to take swift action on rivers to tackle the…
Call to businesses to fund ‘ready to go’ climate resilient river restorations
Media Release: October 15th Dozens of waterway sites ripe for rewilding, say London Rivers Week organisers A map of 145 ‘ready-to-go’ river restorations will be…
Thames21 participates in RECOUP’s 2021 plastics recycling and resources conference
Recycling charity RECOUP recently organised its 2021 conference around the theme ‘plastics resources and recycling’. Our CEO Debbie Leach was invited to participate in this…
Time to fix our broken water sector report: Thames21 responds
Last week, the Angling Trust and Salmon & Trout Conservation released a new report called ‘Time to Fix The Broken Water Sector’. In this report,…
Photography competition puts focus on upcoming London Rivers Week
A photography competition, called #PictureBlueLondon, has been launched in celebration of London Rivers Week, which runs from October 23-31 – visit our full events list….